Chelsey Heijnen (born 2 May 1999) is a Dutch
amateur boxer who won a bronze medal at the
2022 World Championships.
Biography
Heijnen started with playing
rugby
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Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
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. She was given the advice to improve her footwork through boxing, and she continued with boxing. As a junior, Heijnen became European champion in
Sofia 2017. In 2019 she won the silver medal at the Strandja Cup in the 64 kg category.
Heijnen was nominated to become 2019
Roosendaal sportswomen of the year.
In March 2020, Heijnen was not able to qualify for the
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
at the
2020 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament
The 2020 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament for boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics began on 14 March 2020 at the Copper Box Arena in London. On 16 March, the tournament was suspended and postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ...
. She competed at the
2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships
The 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships (the 12th edition of the championships) was held in Istanbul, Turkey from 8 to 20 May 2022.
Medal winners were awarded prize money; gold medallists earn $100,000, silver medallists $50,000, and bro ...
in the
light welterweight category and won the bronze medal. She was the only Dutch competitor at these 2022 World Championships.
She was trained (in 2019) by André de Klerk and coached by Abdul Fkiri.
Heijnen studied at the
Johan Cruyff College where she earned a spot in the "Wall of Fame" in May 2019 and received her diploma in July 2019. Afterwards she started with a part-time study at the .
References
External links
Chelsey Heijnenat boxrec.com
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Dutch women boxers
21st-century Dutch women
Sportspeople from Roosendaal
1999 births
Living people
AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists
European Games competitors for the Netherlands
Boxers at the 2023 European Games
Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for the Netherlands